Note 155 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal (continued 2)
Richard Aldington translation
This is the reign (which seems eternal in France) of the ‘wit’, with his attribute so admirably denounced by Malebranche in this delicious phrase: ‘The stupid person and the wit are equally blind to truth; with this difference, that the stupid person respects truth while the wit despises it.’